Today's Learning Objective

Students will determine the author's purpose and cite specific evidence from the text used to develop this purpose.
RL.10.1, RL.10.2

Bell Work

Complete the Daily Edit.

Complete: Working with a Text

Finish "And So" charts!

Question: What point about society or the world is Marquez making in his story, "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings"?

It Says: Find 2 pieces of evidence from the text. Quote!

I Say: What makes each of these pieces of text evidence stand out? What makes them important?

And So: Answer the question! What is Marquez's "so what"?


Active Reading

Read and ANNOTATE another short story by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, "The Most Handsome Drowned Man in the World." Look for his purpose! What is his "so what" in this story?